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Guild Artisan / Guild Merchant
Legacy
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
wealth from the constraints of a feudal social order. You learned your skills as an apprentice to a master artisan, under the sponsorship of your guild, until you became a master in your own right
wheelwrights
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Weavers and dyers
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Woodcarvers, coopers, and bowyers
As a member of your guild, you know the skills needed to create finished items from raw materials (reflected
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Creature.Thought to be as old as the Abyss itself, sibriexes haunt remote parts of that plane, where they use their vile abilities to create new horrors and they seek ancient lore. Rivulets of blood and
-shaping they provide.
Variant: Flesh Warping
Creatures that encounter a sibriex can be twisted beyond recognition. Whenever a creature fails a saving throw against the sibriex’s Warp Creature
Entertainer
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
liking to you.
Variant Entertainer: Gladiator
A gladiator is as much an entertainer as any minstrel or circus performer, trained to make the arts of combat into a spectacle the crowd can
enjoy. This kind of flashy combat is your entertainer routine, though you might also have some skills as a tumbler or actor. Using your By Popular Demand feature, you can find a place to perform in
Firbolg
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
; Gimble, Notes from a Treasure Hunter
Firbolg tribes cloister in remote forest strongholds, preferring to spend their days in quiet harmony with the woods. When provoked, firbolgs demonstrate
formidable skills with weapons and druidic magic.
Humble Guardians
Firbolgs love nothing more than a peaceful day spent among the trees of an old forest. They see forests as sacred places, representing the
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
social order. You learned your skills as an apprentice to a master artisan, under the sponsorship of your guild, until you became a master in your own right.
Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Persuasion
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Woodcarvers, coopers, and bowyers
As a member of your guild, you know the skills needed to create finished items from raw materials (reflected in your proficiency with a certain kind of
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
occupation or social class that frequents the establishment. This contact is delighted to talk with you, and to listen.
Variant Entertainer: Gladiator
A gladiator is as much an
skills as a tumbler or actor. Using your By Popular Demand feature, you can find a place to perform in any place that features combat for entertainment — perhaps a gladiatorial arena or secret
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply
, though some dragon turtles prefer coastal lairs with easier access to settlements they can trade with—or prey upon. Particularly reclusive dragon turtles seek lairs in even more remote locales
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
with, including obscure dialects. They are fond of sprinkling their speech with words borrowed from other tongues: Orc curses, Elvish musical expressions, Dwarvish military phrases, and so on. VARIANT
HUMAN TRAITS
If your campaign uses the optional feat rules from chapter 6, your Dungeon Master might allow these variant traits, all of which replace the human’s Ability Score Increase trait
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
.
— Gimble, Notes from a Treasure Hunter
Firbolg tribes cloister in remote forest strongholds, preferring to spend their days in quiet harmony with the woods. When provoked, firbolgs demonstrate formidable skills with weapons and druidic magic.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Sleight of Hand with Intelligence, rather than Dexterity. This is an example of how to apply the rule in the “Variant: Skills with Different Abilities” section in chapter 7 of the Player’s Handbook.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
whole elephants, whales, or wagons in their talons. They then carry their prey back to their remote nests, journeys that can take days and cover hundreds of miles. Rocs nest amid remote heights. Their
Ability Score Mod Save Int 3 −4 −4 Wis 10 +0 +4 Cha 9 −1 −1
Skills Perception +8
Senses Passive Perception 18
Languages None
CR 11 (XP 7,200; PB +4)
Actions
Multiattack. The roc
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Ettercap Ettercaps are humanoid spiders that tend, feed, and watch over spiders the way a shepherd oversees a flock of sheep. They lair deep in remote forests. Fine strands of silk stream from glands
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Hit Points 44 (8d8 + 8)
Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft.
STR
14 (+2)
DEX
15 (+2)
CON
13 (+1)
INT
7 (−2)
WIS
12 (+1)
CHA
8 (−1)
Skills Perception +3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Skill Variants A skill dictates the circumstances under which a character can add his or her proficiency bonus to an ability check. Skills define those circumstances by referring to different aspects
of the six ability scores. For example, Acrobatics and Stealth are two different aspects of Dexterity, and a character can specialize in either or both. You can dispense with skills and use one of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
connection to its ruling family or its businesses. The Adventurer, though, is hired by the house for more traditional adventuring skills—usually capabilities that the house’s other agents lack. The Adventurer
might have a wide range of abilities, particular to whatever needs the House has at the time. Many with peculiar skills or highly specific fields of expertise find themselves in the employ of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
webbed and, like a shark, she has an angular dorsal fin that protrudes from the middle of her back. Fhenimore (Kraken Priest Variant)
Medium humanoid (human), neutral evil
Armor Class 13 (natural
armor)
Hit Points 75 (10d8 + 30)
Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft.
STR
16 (+3)
DEX
10 (+0)
CON
16 (+3)
INT
10 (+0)
WIS
15 (+2)
CHA
14 (+2)
Skills Perception
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
Champion One of the most remote locations inside White Plume Mountain is the hideout of a band of criminals led by the fallen champion Sir Bluto, an alleged mass murderer and a fugitive. Sir Bluto
(plate)
Hit Points 143 (22d8 + 44)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
20 (+5)
DEX
15 (+2)
CON
14 (+2)
INT
10 (+0)
WIS
14 (+2)
CHA
12 (+1)
Saving Throws Str +9, Con +6
Skills
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
)
INT
2 (−4)
WIS
13 (+1)
CHA
7 (−2)
Skills Perception +3
Senses passive Perception 13
Languages —
Challenge 2 (450 XP)
Keen Smell. The bear has advantage on Wisdom
. Hit: 9 (1d8 + 5) piercing damage.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) slashing damage.
VARIANT: CAVE BEAR
Some bears have adapted to life underground
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
lacks that proficiency, he or she just makes a Strength check. Variant: Skills with Different Abilities Normally, your proficiency in a skill applies only to a specific kind of ability check
Skills Each ability covers a broad range of capabilities, including skills that a character or a monster can be proficient in. A skill represents a specific aspect of an ability score, and an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
lichdom. Those who are neither good nor evil sequester themselves in remote towers to practice their magic without interruption. An archmage typically has one or more apprentice mages, and an archmage’s
)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
10 (+0)
DEX
14 (+2)
CON
12 (+1)
INT
20 (+5)
WIS
15 (+2)
CHA
16 (+3)
Saving Throws Int +9, Wis +6
Skills Arcana +13, History +13
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
she just makes a Strength check. Variant: Skills with Different Abilities Normally, your proficiency in a skill applies only to a specific kind of ability check. Proficiency in Athletics, for example
Skills Each ability covers a broad range of capabilities, including skills that a character or a monster can be proficient in. A skill represents a specific aspect of an ability score, and an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
11 (+0)
INT
17 (+3)
WIS
12 (+1)
CHA
11 (+0)
Saving Throws Int +6, Wis +4
Skills Arcana +6, History +6
Senses passive Perception 11
Languages any four languages
to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage.
VARIANT: FAMILIARS
Any spellcaster that can cast the find familiar spell (such as an archmage or mage) is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
in combat with their claws, bone devils also wield hooked polearms made of bone, which they use to subdue enemies before striking with their venomous tails. VARIANT: BONE DEVIL POLEARM
Some bone
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INT
13 (+1)
WIS
14 (+2)
CHA
16 (+3)
Saving Throws Int +5, Wis +6, Cha +7
Skills Deception +7, Insight +6
Damage Resistances cold; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
in her head and pull her tentacles up into the shell protectively, like a strange hermit crab. Whymsee (Kraken Priest Variant)
Medium humanoid (human), neutral evil
Armor Class 17 (natural armor
)
Hit Points 75 (10d8 + 30)
Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft.
STR
12 (+1)
DEX
10 (+0)
CON
16 (+3)
INT
10 (+0)
WIS
15 (+2)
CHA
14 (+2)
Skills Perception +5
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
)
Speed 10 ft., climb 10 ft.
STR
12 (+1)
DEX
6 (−2)
CON
16 (+3)
INT
1 (−5)
WIS
6 (−2)
CHA
2 (−4)
Skills Stealth +2
Damage Resistances acid
is partly corroded and takes a permanent and cumulative −1 penalty to the AC it offers. The armor is destroyed if the penalty reduces its AC to 10.
VARIANT: PSYCHIC GRAY OOZE
A gray ooze that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
with demonic fury, rushing into battle seeking vengeance against those who bound their fiendish masters. Rakshasas are described in the Monster Manual. A martial variant—the zakya rakshasa—is
14 (+2)
CON
18 (+4)
INT
12 (+1)
WIS
13 (+1)
CHA
11 (+0)
Skills Athletics +7, Perception +4
Damage Vulnerabilities piercing from magic weapons wielded by good
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Mimic Mimics are shape-shifting monsters described in the Monster Manual. The variant presented here is a particularly large and voracious specimen—the result of Netherese experiments on ordinary
)
CON
17 (+3)
INT
9 (−1)
WIS
15 (+2)
CHA
10 (+0)
Skills Stealth +7
Damage Immunities acid
Condition Immunities prone
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
curse, the more savage and bestial they become. Wereboars live in small family groups in remote forest areas, building ramshackle huts or dwelling in caves. They are suspicious of strangers but
)
Speed 30 ft. (40 ft. in boar form)
STR
17 (+3)
DEX
10 (+0)
CON
15 (+2)
INT
10 (+0)
WIS
11 (+0)
CHA
8 (−1)
Skills Perception +2
Damage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
)
INT
3 (−4)
WIS
10 (+0)
CHA
9 (−1)
Saving Throws Dex +4, Con +9, Wis +4, Cha +3
Skills Perception +4
Senses passive Perception 14
Languages —
Challenge 11
elephant, a roc dives down to snatch its prey in its massive talons.
Remote and Alone. Rocs are solitary creatures that can live for centuries. They lair in nests made from trees, tents, broken ships
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
effect based on the grung’s color (see “Variant: Grung Poison”). They also use this venom to poison their weapons. Variant: Grung Poison A creature poisoned by a grung can suffer an additional effect
(+0)
Saving Throws Dex +4
Skills Athletics +2, Perception +2, Stealth +4, Survival +2
Damage Immunities poison
Condition Immunities poisoned
Senses passive Perception 12
Languages Grung
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
thri-kreen have such short lifespans, the average thri-kreen life expectancy being only thirty years. VARIANT: THRI-KREEN WEAPONS
Some thri-kreen employ special martial weapons. A gythka is a two
)
Hit Points 33 (6d8 + 6)
Speed 40 ft.
STR
12 (+1)
DEX
15 (+2)
CON
13 (+1)
INT
8 (−1)
WIS
12 (+1)
CHA
7 (−2)
Skills Perception +3, Stealth +4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
, Ramondo VARIANT HUMAN TRAITS
If your campaign uses the optional feat rules from chapter 6, your Dungeon Master might allow these variant traits, all of which replace the human’s Ability Score
Increase trait.
Ability Score Increase. Two different ability scores of your choice increase by 1.
Skills. You gain proficiency in one skill of your choice.
Feat. You gain one feat of your choice.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Sibriex Thought to be as old as the Abyss itself, sibriexes haunt remote parts of that plane, where they use their vile abilities to create new horrors and they seek ancient lore. Rivulets of blood
3 (−4)
CON
23 (+6)
INT
25 (+7)
WIS
24 (+7)
CHA
25 (+7)
Saving Throws Int +13, Cha +13
Skills Arcana +13, History +13, Perception +13
Damage Resistances
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
it a powerful weapon that dissolves if the molydeus dies. The weapon’s form varies depending on the creator, but that doesn’t affect the weapon’s capabilities. Variant: Demon Summoning You can give a
+14, Wis +14, Cha +14
Skills Perception +21
Damage Resistances cold, fire, lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Damage Immunities poison
Condition Immunities
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
amnizus that patrol here drill the rules of the Nine Hells into the new arrivals’ minds and marshal them into legions. Variant: Devil Summoning Some amnizus have an action that allows them to summon other
)
WIS
12 (+1)
CHA
18 (+4)
Saving Throws Dex +7, Con +9, Wis +7, Cha +10
Skills Perception +7
Damage Resistances cold; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
world. Living portents seek out beings who will play a part in the prophecies they serve, and as the living portents search, they relate fragments of the prophecies to those they encounter. Variant
14 (+2)
INT
14 (+2)
WIS
16 (+3)
CHA
15 (+2)
Saving Throws Dex +5, Wis +5
Skills Arcana +6, History +6, Insight +5, Perception +5
Damage Immunities radiant
Condition Immunities